The Blog
On photography and things like that
Where thoughts and pictures become words.
Resistance – That Voice In Your Head
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. ― Steven Pressfield When is the last time you had a new and interesting idea? Something that got you excited, if even just a [...]
Daily Living
Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself. Rumi It always seems like looking for the treasure is more fun than actually finding it. Once you find it, if you ever do, then what? It's not about [...]
Summer Fly By
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. -Arthur Schopenhauer [...]
Contemplation And The Photographer – Mystical Awareness
Mysticism ~ The attainment of insight in ultimate or hidden truths, and to human transformation supported by various practices and experiences. In doing some research on contemplation and photography I came across the "mystical awareness" phrase. In learning [...]
From Change To Transition
Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. [...]
A World Of Pretenders
After all is said and done, more is said than done. -Aesop I have always felt the most important part of what I do is, what I do. That is to say, It makes very little difference what [...]
What Motivates Me
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by, you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from [...]
Loss & Renewal
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise [...]
Time Enough
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. – Pema Chödrön Most days my morning begins the same. After rising, making of some coffee, letting the dog take care of some business, I do [...]
In The Company Of
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction. -Meister Eckhart When we experience the death of a loved one it is like having a piece of our body ripped off. There is no immediate comfort that will [...]
Embracing Moments
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. -E. O. Wilson In today's hustle and bustle world, it seems to be to easy for our days to become filled with the [...]
Tread Lightly
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor E. Frankl As I look back over years of my life I now recognize many of those years being based on [...]
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~Lao Tzu